Sentence examples for terms of pleasure from inspiring English sources

"I think of writing simply in terms of pleasure.

But, after the sensation novel, it became possible to talk about tears solely in terms of pleasure.

In terms of pleasure per dollar, Mia Dona is as successful as any place he and Ms. Arpaia have worked on with or without each other.

When I started to drink — to really drink, to become conscious of my drinking not just in terms of pleasure but escape — I was ashamed, but also proud.

Bentham's assumptions about what makes for happiness are often quite ordinary and sensible; the reader can accept them and still insist that happiness is not to be defined in terms of pleasure and is not to be measured.

In terms of flawless craft and, more important, in terms of pleasure, "When the Women Come Out to Dance" is top-notch work from one of our most gifted and consistently entertaining writers.

The vague and tendentious method parses the story in terms of pleasure-seekers victimized by the forces of repression, yet when one zoophile equates his love for horses to other men's love for their wives and children, questions of morality and perspective arise which Devor scrupulously avoids.

This model was tested by some empirical studies which found that firstly children interpret facial expressions in terms of pleasure-displeasure (bipolar hedonic value) and intensity (arousal level).

At the core of these criticisms is the thesis that the position involves a fallacy, the 'naturalistic fallacy', of supposing that goodness, which Moore takes to be the fundamental ethical value, can be defined in naturalistic terms, in terms, say, of pleasure or desire or the course of evolution.

But this would make his doctrine of higher pleasures fundamentally anti-hedonistic, insofar it explains the superiority of higher activities, not in terms of the pleasure they produce, but rather in terms of the dignity or value of the kind of life characterized by the exercise of higher capacities.

In terms of pure pleasure, the renovated Wallace Collection in Manchester Square has had few rivals this summer.